A gigantic bacterium found in a mangrove swamp in the Caribbean is by far the largest ever found, and now scientists think they've figured out how it grew to such an enormous size.
He saw something very odd once he tipped his sample of swamp water into a petri dish, however. Thin, 'vermicelli-like' threads visible to the naked eye were drifting above the leaves and the dirt.
"When I saw them, I thought, 'strange'," he said."In the beginning I thought it was just something curious, some white filaments that needed to be attached to something in the sediment like a leaf."More than a decade on, several researchers have peered down microscopes to examine the strange little prokaryotes.
The unusual organism has been poked and prodded using fluorescence, X-rays, electron microscopy, and genome sequencing so that scientists could confirm that it was in fact a gigantic single-cell bacterium.today, the team revealed several curious mechanisms that may explain how the unwieldy bacteria pushes the limits of what is theoretically possible in terms of size.
Unlike larger, multicellular organisms – eukaryotes like us that have membrane enclosed organelles in their cells like the nucleus – bacteria belong to a group of organisms called prokaryotes, which are traditionallyT. magnifica"Because it segregates its genetic material in membrane-bound organelles,
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